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"We Thought It Was Erotic Postcards"

Kay

Jul 11, 2024 — 1 min read

"It was only by chance that the artist-curator David Trullo was working on a temporary installation at Madrid’s National Museum of Decorative Arts on the day in 2017 that a sealed case, unopened for 80 years, arrived from the ministry of finance. With no means of tracing the original owner or their family, it had lain in a bureaucratic and financial limbo until sufficient time had passed for its opening to be legally permissible."

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The Lilac Sunbonnet by Bessie MacNicol

Bessie MacNicol was a Scottish painter whose works now hang in the National Galleries of Scotland. The Lilac Sunbonnet is a "sun-drenched, joy-filled" painting from 1899, which shows a woman in dappled light and breezy clothing, her head cocked to the side at a playful angle, a smile

Ancient Amber Bear

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Wost Photo

Wost Photo is photographer Wolfgang Stocker's website, where calming macro images of flowers, moody city scenes, and more conceptual pieces live. You can browse to experience the beauty of the images or take a deeper dive in the blog, which provides more context for series of shots. Just

Passing English of the Victorian Era

If you've ever come across the meme about the Victorian slang phrase, "got the morbs" (a "temporary melancholia"), you've been introduced to James Redding Ware's Passing English of the Victorian Era, a dictionary of slang published in 1909. You don&